Ares Quarterly Progress Report # 16

This Ares Quarterly Progress Report, originally released to the public June 24, 2010, includes progress updates on:
-Drogue parachute drop tests
-First stage avionics
-Upper stage manufacturing facilities
-J-2X nozzle assembly
-J-2X subsystem component manufacturing

For a closed-captioned version of the video, please visit us on the Web at http://www.nasa.gov/ares.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• NASA
• Constellation
• Ares
• J-2X
• DM-2
• rocket
• spaceflight
• space
• technology
• avionics
• engines

[sedna69a]

Obama killed the program for only one real reason. To deny Bush a legacy for political reasons. :(

[sedna69a]

Where's #17?

[AmunExorbis]

@eaglebeak4

Yeah like G.W.Bush was so enthusiastic about it.

(don't even bother to blame Obama about is, he simply has to clean Bush's mess first)

[eaglebeak4]

If anyone trys to cancel this I will be very mad!

"To Mars!'

[davisgreen2020]

If NASA is to go beyond L.E.O at long last ! It will need a Ares V HLV !! It is very sad that Constellation is canceled ! I hope Congress overrules President Obama on this ! And Only this ! Keep the Space Shuttle going until there is a replacement ( Sen. John Glenn ), And keep and give the funding needed to NASA complete Constellation ( Neil Armstrong) !!!

[rjholling]

@theflinx It would be an even greater crime not to cancel it. Launch costs of $1 billion + for Ares I is more than the shuttle which has an order of magnitude greater capability than a tin can watered down Orion.

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

Come on NASA, get the public excited about space again, so that you'll get the fundings to return to the moon and later to Mars!

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

@MattBlak1 Agreed.

[MattBlak1]

@TheFutureIsRightHere NO. Thats a myth. Tooling, engines, launchpads, PEOPLE & Companies, even many materials used in the 1960s dont exist now. It would cost NEARLY AS MUCH as Constellation (CXP) to resurrect Apollo. CXP WAS bringing back Saturn's J-2 engine in improved version: it might still get cancelled too. CXP was going to be better than Apollo, but there was less than HALF the money required going into it. Even slightly cheaper Apollo could not be afforded with the money NASA was given.

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

If NASA is short on budget today, can't they simply continue the Apollo program today? Wouldn't that be a lot more cheaper to use the Saturn V rocket and the rest of the Apollo hardware that was present during the late 1960s and early 1970s? Meaning that if we use the technology of the 60s and 70s today instead of the technology of the year of 2010, the price tag would be sufficiently lower!